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Folium: A gorgeous compendium of beautiful leaves

English ｜ Hardcover｜ 2026 ｜ 304 pages ｜ 27×22 cm

Publisher　 Smith Street Books
Author　　　　Jeanne Batiste
ISBN　　　　　9781923503168

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Folium: A Gorgeous Compendium of Beautiful Leaves turns its gaze away from flowers in full bloom and toward a quieter yet equally abundant presence in the botanical world: the leaf. Through approximately 300 botanical artworks spanning different periods, the book invites us to look closely at the contours, veins, colors, textures, and growth patterns of leaves, revealing the seemingly endless ways in which nature develops its own language of form.

From finely structured pinnate leaves to broad, substantial tropical foliage, and from botanical illustrations rendered with scientific precision to richly decorative historical prints, the images gathered in Folium demonstrate how artists and naturalists transformed close observation into visual knowledge that could be studied, preserved, and shared. Serrated edges, branching structures, symmetry, and irregularity gradually move beyond their botanical functions to become sources of line, rhythm, proportion, and pattern.

The leaves featured throughout the book also reveal the distinctive position of botanical art between science and aesthetics. While each image seeks to record the defining characteristics of a species with accuracy, it inevitably reflects choices of composition and presentation. The direction of a branch, the overlap of leaves, and the use of negative space give these images an appeal that lies somewhere between scientific plate, printmaking, and design study.

Leaf forms have long appeared across architecture, textiles, wallpaper, ceramics, and graphic design. Brought together here across centuries, these historical images form a rich visual archive of natural structure, reminding us that many familiar elements of design have long existed within the architecture of a single leaf.

Following Biblioflora, her celebration of flowers in botanical art, Jeanne Batiste once again selects remarkable images from the history of botanical representation. Folium is more than a beautiful compendium of leaves; it is a visual journey across natural history, illustration, and design. For plant lovers, illustrators, graphic designers, and pattern makers alike, it offers both an absorbing book to browse and a lasting source of form, texture, and inspiration.

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Author︰Jeanne Batiste
Publisher︰Smith Street Books
Publication Year︰2026
Dimensions︰27×22 cm
Binding︰Hardcover
Pages︰304 pages